In a move designed to enhance the use of the iPad professionally, Apple said the larger-storage iPad would suite users seeking to store large CAD files, X-rays, film edits, music tracks, project blueprints, training videos and service ...
Samsung's name for its upmarket Ativ tablet device - "Smart PC Pro" - is confusing. It is, after all, a tablet with an attachable keyboard, not a traditional PC as we know it. It is in the mould of the well-established ASUS transformer ...
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Microsoft continues to expand its cloud offerings with the general availability of Windows Azure Media Services, which lets enterprises skip building their own infrastructure for streaming on-demand video. The service, released Tuesday, ...
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Microsoft has announced that its business-oriented Surface Windows 8 Pro tablet computer will debut in the US and Canada in February with a lofty starting price of $US899 ($A851). Microsoft also said that the consumer-focused version of ...
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Fusion-io has taken the flash storage cards it's been making for its biggest customers and turned them into products that almost any company can buy. The new product, called Fusion ioScale, is based on the same design that Fusion-io makes ...
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Micron on Thursday unveiled its first terabyte-sized solid-state drive (SSD) for consumers, the Crucial M500, which will sell for under $600, or 60 cents per gigabyte. The new SSD, almost doubles the capacity over its predecessor the ...
Want to keep your phone working as well as it can—and should? We'll bet at least one of these tips from our experts will surprise you. 1. Weak signals kill your battery. Phones use more power when they're trying to access a weak ...
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IDG News Service - A new Blu-ray Disc promises to keep data fresh long after it might have decayed on other discs. The MDisc, developed by Utah-based Millenniata, will be available from June this year in a 25 gigabyte capacity and will ...
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Macworld - With build-to-order options, the new Mac mini makes a giant leap in performance. The $799 standard configuration Mac mini comes with a 2.3GHz quad-core Core i7 processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 5400-rpm 1TB hard drive. We customized ...
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Rackspace was one of the first players in the cloud arena. The company recognized early that enterprises wanted faster, simpler ways to spin up and spin down servers. If the bosses are going to be fickle and impulsive, there will always be ...
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Skyera, a Silicon Valley startup, says it can make high-speed flash storage for enterprises cheaper than hard disks by using the low-grade chip technology found in thumb drives. Skyera has built a 44TB storage array, called the Skyhawk, ...
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If having to pay $7+ per gigabyte for secure flash drives makes you blanch, take a look at the Lenovo ThinkPad USB 3.0 Secure Hard Drive. At only $200 for 750GBwhich translates to about 4GB per $1and PIN-pad security, it's a lot more ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making a foray into the data warehousing segment with the launch of Redshift, a cloud-based data warehouse service. It announced the Redshift service, along with Amazon S3 price cuts, at its first ever user ...
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Intel today announced its third-generation, enterprise-class solid-state drive series (SSD) that adds 15 times the maximum sequential write performance and twice the read performance of its predecessor. The price for the new Intel ...
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The first tests of EE's 4G network showed less than half of Manchester city centre was covered by the high-speed mobile network and 4G connections were inconsistent. Only 42.2% of test locations had 4G access, while outside Manchester ...
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